You know most towns have a sign at the city limits that says "Welcome to such and such", Aberdeen Washington where he was from says "Welcome To Aberdeen, Come As You Are"
this is true, and SO funny considering kurt wrote openly about how much he hated aberdeen and was traumatized by his time there. also shows a pretty wild misunderstanding of the messaging of this song by the chamber of commerce, or whomever made the decision to have that sign made XD
correct. Although I believe a shotgun was Kurt's choice in '94 and not a revolver . . . it is still pretty f'ing dark though. The best art is created in pain.
It's hard to gauge time, especially as you get older, but 'Nevermind' seems about twenty years ago at a stretch! Which begs the question, when/where are the other ten years? 🤔
Hearing Nirvana for the first time (in high school in the early 90’s) was amazing. I’d never heard anything like them before. And yes, their music hit different after Kurt died. I still remember that day too. I was heartbroken.
Yes! I was in 8th grade, Middle School, going into my Freshman year of High School... but, I'm not going to go any further...just because...it was (and still is even now) a very tough and hard time to go through. For friends of mine, families, etc;
When I heard he died I wasn’t really shocked. It was inevitable. Knew it was going to happen, just didn’t know when. Luckily I got to see them a few months prior to 94.
I remember listening to this album and Pearl Jam Ten on the school bus every day and at my friend’s house in the afternoons. I graduated high school in 94. It was odd; high school had sort of begun with their breakout and ended with that shit day when Kurt died. I still remember Courtney Love reading snippets from the suicide note on the phone with Curt Loder at MTV News. “So there’s a bunch of shit that’s none of your business, and then he says, ...’and I just have so much empathy and I don’t want to let anybody down...’ so why’d you do it you fucking asshole?!” I still get emotional thinking about it. I couldn’t help thinking that we, the fans, were sort of responsible. He never wanted to be the poster boy for our generation. And he certainly wasn’t emotionally equipped to be. But damn it, he was talented. And funny, and by all accounts very sweet. We had some great music in the early 90’s. And we lost some really talented dudes for one reason or another. Kurt, Layne, and Shannon. Tupac. More recently, Scott Weiland. Chris Cornell. Dolores O’Riordan. So many of the people responsible for the soundtrack to some of the best years of my life.
"Heart Shaped Box" is also a MUST if you're gonna get to know Nirvana. If you haven't done "Smells Like Teen Spirit" that's also required listening..... for SURE you'll recognize it from somewhere!
@@TheClayCoKid I think he means he shouldn't have started the legendary rock band Foo fighters and be a front man and play guitar. Which is ludicrous to say. Foo's Rock 🤘
When that single dropped, fans were ready for it. The first single, "Smells ..." was Big, but when you heard the whole album, that song "Come As You Are", always caught the listener. We just knew that was gonna be the next single. I was there, I lived it. The whole NIRVANA craze was massive.
When Kurt died, and everyone realized that the first three songs on "Nevermind" all mention guns at some point...well, we all felt like we'd missed something that had been staring us in the face for years.
@Anthony Cunningham I think probably so. Climbing bitch, latched onto him as someone with talent, and wanted to yank every dime out of the commercialization of Nirvana.
When someone dies like that, it's only natural to look back a see if there were clues. With musicians , one natural looks to their lyrics. Same as when Chester died, everyone went back and examined Linkin Park's lyrics.
@Anthony Cunningham Except that's not what happened. It's what a lot of people wish had happened because they can't accept that Kurt committed suicide, and coming up with a conspiracy theory to explain it was easier than coming to terms with the fact that someone they loved decided death was preferable to their adoration. That's a really tough pill to swallow, and I say that as someone who has had to deal with the aftermath of a loved one's suicide.
I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan when they first came to America. I have enjoyed a massive amount of great talent. AM radio was a blessing. Hours and hours of nothing but pure joy.
@@barbarastrayhorn4667 Wow, so you’re definitely an older school Nirvana fan! I was 9 when “Nevermind” was released, and I tend to meet Nirvana fans born after 1994.
I find the lyrics to "You know you're right", the last song he worked on before he died, to be hard to take. Also his song "I hate myself and want to die" from the Beavis and butthead soundtrack is another example of "holy shit" in retrospect
...but Only in retrospect, as he himself has stated that the title held No deeper meaning than the fact he found the Public Medias paintings of him as the "miserable-all-the-time" depressed guy, when in reality he was quite alright with life at the time, As Well as the fact that the lyrics of the song make no connection to the tittle, so yeah - nothing too significant about that title, other than the mere coincidence of what was about to follow...
For me, the song was basically saying "I know who you really are from our past, so just be yourself and I'll be your friend", with the "gun" being a metaphor for ulterior motives. Never struck me as being related to Cobain's death.
That is EXACTLY how it felt in April of '94: retroactively eerie. Shock jocks and hack comedians thought they were pretty clever pointing that lyric out after the fact, but every fan or even casual listener had already recalled it.
In 1991, Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" punched everyone in the mouth! The whole world was introduced to these guys, and even though it was short lived, the impact of the music and what it stands for will live forever. R.I.P. Kurt, you are missed.
Jamel, Kurt quoted one of Neil Young's songs in his suicide note. "It's better to burn out, than to fade away" from the song "My, My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue).
I vividly remember hearing this song coming through my speakers like an alien. It cut through reality and the cultural sea changed immediately. I’ve never been so profoundly moved that way by music ever since, it changed everything and suddenly there was a light guiding me through the charades of society.
Hey Jamel. To answer your questions; The album 'Nevermind' by Nirvana was recorded at different times in 1990 and 1991. It was released in September 1991. Kurt Cobain died on April 5, 1994. And yes, listening to this song after Kurt's suicide had a *very* different feel than it did before he died. It's still eerie. Your words, "I enjoyed this, but I didn't at the same time" sums up how so many of us fans felt, and still feel, about this song.
I remember hearing of his passing. I was a huge fan. I still am. I can tell you exactly where I was when I found out. This was the first song I heard after that. It still hurts. I love this song but it still makes me cry when I think about that.
That afternoon I overheard some people in a dorm room discussing it, saying "he was like our generation's Jim Morrison" and I thought that was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard.. until I found out myself an hour later. Then I realized oh yeah, that's more or less so.
Absolutely loved this song when it came out, that spidery guitar almost feels like a nod to The Cure's "One Hundred Years". I will say though, this song definitely felt like a gut punch after he passed. I still love this song, but it always makes me incredibly sad and at the same time it's so damn good! 💔
Supposedly he got that thick guitar sound by using piano wire instead of guitar wire. Truly a remarkable song from a bona fide musical maestro. Kurt had demons and struggles his entire life. It is so sad that he lost that battle. So many of the best singers of the 90s are no longer with us such as Kurt, Layne Staley, Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, and Scott Weiland, just to name a few. RIP to such talented performers. Thanks for reacting to this! ~Be Blessed
The music identity of my generation is all but wiped out. So sad to think a lot of those groups we’ve got zero chance of ever seeing in concert one last time.
No. He used Dean Markley .10 strings. That watery sound comes from both the bass and guitar tracks running through a Yamaha SPX90 on the " Symphonic" preset when mastered. That added some more chorus to the guitars, as Kurt also used an EHX Small Clone on this track.
@@djlp2212 I'm not talking about "Come As You Are" their song "You Know You're Right" was released long after Cobain's death and was one of the last tracks the band ever recorded.
"Come as You Are" was recorded in May 1991(released, March 1992).... Kurt "died" in April 1994. This song is just another in a long list of his songs and other writings chronicling Kurt's thoughts and descent into the abyss. Just my opinion.... But....."come doused in mud, soaked in bleach as I want you to be. As a Trend, as a friend as a Memoria (a "crafted" delivery of speech and prose)" seems like a lyrical testament to how he felt about the "world" HE was living in. Again, just MY thoughts, for whatever it's worth. Peace and Light to all....
The tragedy of the end of Kurt’s life was a few years later. When I first heard this song, I never thought anything of the lyrics being prophetic. I was lucky enough to see them in concert the New Years Eve just a few months before his passing. After that, YES, this song was full of foreshadowing. It’s still one of my favorite songs but it makes me a little sad too.
I was 12 when I first heard it, my parents got divorced, then a few months later he took his life away... It was a hard time for me, but Kurt changed my life forever, I started playing guitar, and more than 25 years later I'm still here, listening to his songs, and realizing how genius it was :-) thanks man, all the best!
The whole grunge scene was full of depressed thoughts and imagery. With Nirvana especially, you can't escape it. But some of their music is still light and fun! I suggest an old deep track "Sliver" short and almost still innocent
Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged Album.... great collection of their songs and cover songs done acoustically live in front of a small crowd. My favorite because of the raw emotion in his voice is Where Did You Sleep Last Night. The MTV original broadcast was in Dec of 93.....just before Kurt’s tragic passing in April 94. Thanks for the channel...brings back memories on why I love music and love seeing your reaction to these great songs.
You have to listen to their MTV Unplugged performance! You can pick any song and it is amazing, but the last song "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" is one of my all time favorites of any music by anyone ever. The ending and the look in Kurt's eyes is so powerful. I still remember the moment I heard on the radio that he had died, I was in the 8th grade and at that age when music has become a huge part of your world, so it was crushing. I remember MTV playing "All Apologies" a lot right after it happened. I'm grateful for the time he was here with us and the music he gave us and I consider myself very lucky to have grown up at the time that I did, becoming a teenager just as grunge and alternative were becoming big and graduating right before Britney Spears came along and the boy bands became the big thing. There'll never be another Nirvana. R.I.P. Kurt
I am not a big fan, but Come as you are, specially the acoustic version and Heart shaped box are so amazing songs "Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach As I want you to be"
I live 5 miles from his home were he was a kid .Coming In to Aberdeen Washington there Is a sign that says WELCOME TO ABERDEEN COME AS YOU ARE people from all over the country and the world come to take pictures by the sign. My 2 sons loved his music and so many more local people mourned his death suicide hurts so many !
This song is really about how Kurt felt about people and/or friend's in general. Kurt Cobain was quoted once saying, "a friend is nothing but a known enemy." Also, I think in saying he doesn't have a gun is his way of saying... Come like you and I know you are and it'll be peaceful as far as he's concerned. "No, I don't have a gun." 🤷🏼 Hope that made some kind of sense. 😆
@@benleetch6593 I've never heard that version. But basically, only Kurt knows what it really means. I'll have to search some song facts and see what, their breakdown is. I'm sure there's info out there, just never looked into it that much.🤷🏼 😊✌
@@benleetch6593 that is completely fabricated. you wouldn’t soak needles in bleach. It would leave them dangerous and unusable. some idiot just decided “I bet that songs about heroin!”
Agree with this partly. The drug underworld can be seedy and violent. I think he is saying I don’t have a gun, come as you are, not packin. Reminds me of when Uncle Jun told Tony the opposite in telling him if he comes to see him, he better come heavy.
Passed through Aberdeen last summer going to the beach and the 'Entering Aberdeen' sign (now) says, "Welcome To Aberdeen - Come As You Are". I smiled and thought, that's a nice 'city slogan'.
I first heard this song was I was 11 or 12. I'd never heard of Nirvana before that. My friend gave me the single CD and I played it on my mom's CD player. Before that, I only really knew my mom's music (The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Michael Jackson, The Eagles, etc). It blew me away because I had just never heard anything like it and it was my introduction to ALL of the rock I'd fall in love with later. Every time I hear it I still hear the same "other" quality that it had then.
As an 80s rock fan, I ignored this whole genre. But this rise of grunge sent the 80s bands back to playing small bars, and they would do meet n greets with fans for free after the shows. So in a way, I'm grateful for it. 🤣 Oh, BTW Eddie Money's old FB page shared one of your video reactions yesterday =)
For me this is their greatest track. The feeling of alienation is absolute & the withdrawal into yourself. The watery guitar, water everywhere, dissolving the self back into where it all began, where it all went wrong. Always makes me think of Tarkovsky's similar fixation with water, always a theme in his films.
Nevermind is such a timeless album and I really get how Nirvana and their albums created a new aesthetics and inspirations to artist. They always be my favorite band to listen to
You should check out "Blow Up the Outside World" by Soundgarden. Another song that might give you goosebumps knowing that Chris Cornell committed suicide as well.
There are "conspiracy theories" about Chris Cornell, that he didn't commit suicide but was instead "silenced" for the documentary he and Chester Bennington were working on about sex trafficking children. Chris and Chester were very close friends, Chester died/was killed on Chris Connell's birthday (allegedly). There's a lot of information out there about what may have happened. I'll leave a link here to a short video talking about the documentary and what may have happened to Chris and Chester as well as a few other high profile people who "committed suicide" totaldisclosure.net/louder-than-love/chris-cornell/ I'd prefer to find out these are just rumors but the amount of info starting to come out about this stuff causes me to lean towards the conspiracy theories, as much as I hope it's not true.
RIding around in a friends car in Colorado Springs in1992, everyone in the car singing along and knowing it was something special. RIP Kurt and Thank You.
There was a lot of career after this song. This was from Nevermind, their breakout album, and it represents the beginning of Cobain's superstardom, certainly not an imminent indication of suicide. But it does fit in with everything else and makes it obvious in hindsight that Kurt was inherently at risk.
Morphine!!! Buena, All Wrong, Thursday are my faves. There is NO BAND that sounds like these guys. But they sound sooo good. Drum kit, slide bass, baritone sax and voice. That's it Jamel, but they make such good noise.
I 💚 Nirvana! So glad that I got to see these guys live. My nephew gets 'mad' at me because I got to see bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, etc. He was born around this time. I told him that I would have gladly taken him to see them. I did take him to see his 1st concert which was Pearl Jam. Good review 👍
Some other Nirvana songs you need to do a reaction to. All Apologies (this was the last track on the band's final album), Rape Me, Sliver, Something In The Way (very sad song), You Know Your Right, and On A Plane (very funny lyrics)
The single and video for 'Come As You Are' was released on March 2, 1992. Kurt's life came to an end on April 5, 1994. I believe the song was written in early 1991, but could've been written in late 1990 too. When I first heard the song, I was captured by the hypnotic sounds. After Kurt's passing, I believed like most that Kurt took his own life and the song took on a whole new meaning. Then evidence came forth and for the longest time I believed Kurt was murdered by his wife Courtney Love. Now I think there's a possible middle ground where someone aided in Kurt's suicide, though it might've not been intentional. But honestly, I don't think we'll ever know the real truth. I was 11 at the time of Kurt's death and it had an overwhelmingly profound affect on me because Nirvana was my favorite band at the time.
the facts are that there were no fingerprints found anywhere on the gun. you're right, he could have been helped. he had enough smack in him to do the job 4 times over.
Jamel...your reaction to some of these songs is priceless truth. I truly appreciate that you always "come as you are" to these songs. Yep, sometimes you overthink the meanings, but when you nail it you nail it HARD!! Peace, my brother. Stay safe and healthy. Peace out.
Jamel. Please do us a favor and listen to Sublime. Any of them man. The lyrics are beautiful. Set the new UA-camr reacts trend with Sublime!!!! Youre the best youtuber anyway. You actually get music. Other people are just reacting to the video. You listen to the music. Give sublime a shot brother
Nirvana sounds just as fresh today as when it came out. But the song after the fact made me feel eerie! They now have a sign in Kurt's hometown saying Come as U are..
It was released a bit under 3 years before he passed. Nirvana was the soundtrack of my life in high school. He passed just before I graduated. It was really hard. His music really spoke to us loners.
@@redsmoker37 Well Atmosphere is one of the more epic and dark but beautiful songs in Joy Division's discography, So I feel that it wouldn't be too off putting.
One of my all time favorite songs from any artist in any genre. The opening is sublime. Note I bought this when it was released in 1991. My feelings about the song after Cobain's death by suicide haven't changed. His brilliance and the tragedy are both separate and intertwined. All we can do at this end of history is enjoy the work.
The album came out in 90 or 91 and he died in 94. I was listening to Nirvana when they hit it big with Smell Like Teen Spirit. The MTV unplugged they did was a masterpiece for an acoustic album. Back then I my brother had a lot of cassette tapes, all I wanted to do was plug in a set of headphones. The bands that were blowing me away at the time was Faith No More, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Ugly Kid Joe, Metallica, Megadeth, and Pearl Jam. Couple you songs for a reaction are both cover songs done by Faith No More, easy and reunited.
Loss of a simpleton genius best way I can describe it. But just recently I found something on the Internet that showed me a song that Kurt Cobain , which was not of their doing, meaning, it was a cover song. Lately I've been finding out a lot of bands have been doing this for a long time and it really surprised me. Decades of amazement wasn't even real. Based on lies. What a world we live in, what planet exists only justifies its existence.
@@jkalewine there was a song that Nirvana did that wasn't theirs, it was a cover song. What I meant is that a lot of bands that have hit sogs that they don't give credit to the rightful owners, meaning it wasn't written by them. I forget the name of the song but I'll look it up.
My all time favorite band! I was only 5 when Kurt died, but I discovered them later as a teenager. Nevermind was one of those albums that my dad, my sister and I all had our own copies of. A true masterpiece.
I've never heard this song linked to his suicide before now, and never thought about it myself. This was released about three years before he died. It's a song about accepting people for whom they are. A lot of songs mention guns, and this one is so far from depression and suicide, it has pretty much nothing to do with his death. He wrote other lyrics that can much more easily be linked to it.
@@chitlitlahTo clarify, I didn't say this song is linked to his depression. I said that a lot of conspiracy theorists try to use this song as proof that he didn't kill himself because of the "I don't have a gun" line while ignoring all of Kurt's other songs that are about his depression.
@@artiezonk Dude, what are you talking about? Everyone who knows about Kurt knows he was very fond of guns. He had multiple. He grew up with them and enjoyed shooting. The lyrics "I don't have a gun" are not literal. It amazes me how abstract Kurt's lyrics are yet people want to find anything he says and interpret them as literal as possible.
Need to go listen to more Nirvana, now! I used to think how weird it was going to be when we reached our 80s and still banging to this! Great memories and this music never gets old
I imagine all the future old folks homes we'll be in, all us crusty old gen x-ers fighting over whether we're playing screaming metal or happy hardcore 🤣
@@diakojim1977 Dylan Carlson from NW band EARTH didn't kill him. They were tight drug bros. Courtney hired a man from California named Allen Wrench for 50 grand, because Kurt was going to divorce her ass. And then El Duce from The Mentors accidently, drunkenly mentioned it on that Kurt and Courtney Documentary, and was mysteriously hit by a train soon after. And Allen Wrench was the last person anyone had seen Duce with on the day El Duce died. Allen Wrench did it, and Courtney hired him.
This song was out in 1991 and he died in 1994 so a few years later. I know what you mean though about the gun parts in the song. It feels like foreshadowing what was going to happen. I get the same feeling now when I listen to some Linkin Park songs too. You hear some lyrics and it just doesn’t sit right anymore.
Kurts lyrics were so abstract, that I think people overlooked them at the time it came out, but there were definitely noticeable themes. "Nevermind" has a ton of songs referencing guns, and on "In Utero" he references life and death in most songs as well as the album art. Very eerie looking back on it all knowing what happened
Nirvana is my college years. Every time I hear their music there is a small part of me that is still rail thin, wearing baggy hip hugger jeans with a huge belt and cut off shirt and I’m falling deeply in love for the first time. Man, those were the days.
Jamel_aka_jamal, do yourself a favor, don't react to every single Nirvana song as an insight into his death. It's a waste of time and will just hinder your Nirvana experience. Kurt's lyrics are not all just insights into his death.
It's extremely eerie that he states "I don't have a gun" which he meant figuratively in the song but in reality we know it ended up being literally that he did have a gun to end his life. Absolutely crazy how the events reflect back on parts of his lyrics a few years earlier.
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@jamel_AKA_Jamal song came out in ‘91 from their second album “Nevermind”. Kurt passed away in ‘94, a little less than 3 years after the song came out
Jamel...go down the "Morphine-Yes" album...rabbit hole.
You know most towns have a sign at the city limits that says "Welcome to such and such", Aberdeen Washington where he was from says "Welcome To Aberdeen, Come As You Are"
Wow that's pretty cool. Did not know that. Thanks for sharing.
this is true, and SO funny considering kurt wrote openly about how much he hated aberdeen and was traumatized by his time there. also shows a pretty wild misunderstanding of the messaging of this song by the chamber of commerce, or whomever made the decision to have that sign made XD
That sign was there years before Nirvana recorded the song.
@@mizcoke312 no shit
@@mizcoke312 Not true, "Come as you are" was added to "Welcome to Aberdeen" sign in 2005
This was released in 1991. Kurt died in 1994.
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correct. Although I believe a shotgun was Kurt's choice in '94 and not a revolver . . . it is still pretty f'ing dark though.
The best art is created in pain.
It was recorded in 1991. It was released in 1992
@@agent475816 The album came out in '91.
@@Xeroforte Yea, but come as you are came out a a single.
I just realized that Nirvana's Nevermind album will be 30 years old in September. Holy shit, that's crazy. It doesn't seem that long ago at all to me.
Good music is always good music
It's hard to gauge time, especially as you get older, but 'Nevermind' seems about twenty years ago at a stretch! Which begs the question, when/where are the other ten years? 🤔
😮😮😮 indeed surprising.
You got old, boy
Hearing Nirvana for the first time (in high school in the early 90’s) was amazing. I’d never heard anything like them before. And yes, their music hit different after Kurt died. I still remember that day too. I was heartbroken.
I remember hearing two songs back to back on the radio and I thought it was weird. It’s cause they just found his body
Yes! I was in 8th grade, Middle School, going into my Freshman year of High School... but, I'm not going to go any further...just because...it was (and still is even now) a very tough and hard time to go through. For friends of mine, families, etc;
When I heard he died I wasn’t really shocked. It was inevitable. Knew it was going to happen, just didn’t know when. Luckily I got to see them a few months prior to 94.
I remember listening to this album and Pearl Jam Ten on the school bus every day and at my friend’s house in the afternoons. I graduated high school in 94. It was odd; high school had sort of begun with their breakout and ended with that shit day when Kurt died. I still remember Courtney Love reading snippets from the suicide note on the phone with Curt Loder at MTV News. “So there’s a bunch of shit that’s none of your business, and then he says, ...’and I just have so much empathy and I don’t want to let anybody down...’ so why’d you do it you fucking asshole?!” I still get emotional thinking about it.
I couldn’t help thinking that we, the fans, were sort of responsible. He never wanted to be the poster boy for our generation. And he certainly wasn’t emotionally equipped to be. But damn it, he was talented. And funny, and by all accounts very sweet. We had some great music in the early 90’s. And we lost some really talented dudes for one reason or another. Kurt, Layne, and Shannon. Tupac. More recently, Scott Weiland. Chris Cornell. Dolores O’Riordan. So many of the people responsible for the soundtrack to some of the best years of my life.
You gotta do “In Bloom” and “Lithium” by them!!!
"Heart Shaped Box" is also a MUST if you're gonna get to know Nirvana. If you haven't done "Smells Like Teen Spirit" that's also required listening..... for SURE you'll recognize it from somewhere!
Breed, you know your right and scent less apprentice are my faves
The man who sold the world mtv unplugged. Probaly one of my favourite acoustic sessions ever. What a band.
Lithium is my favorite Nirvana song. "In a daze cuz I found god!" Slick ass bass line in the song too.
YES
Don't forget thats Dave Grohl on the drums back there.
Yaaasss
@Eric Flowers how could we EVER FORGET Dave!!
Love that he was able to go on after such a tragic ending to Nirvana and have such a great band!
Didnt realise that until a few weeks ago when i watched Brian Johnson interview him on Sky Arts UK ,great program if you can see it btw
@Top Jimmy What do you mean?
@@TheClayCoKid I think he means he shouldn't have started the legendary rock band Foo fighters and be a front man and play guitar. Which is ludicrous to say. Foo's Rock 🤘
When that single dropped, fans were ready for it. The first single, "Smells ..." was Big, but when you heard the whole album, that song "Come As You Are", always caught the listener. We just knew that was gonna be the next single. I was there, I lived it. The whole NIRVANA craze was massive.
Aberdeen now uses "come as you are" on their welcome sign.
Used to live there. That sign has been there a long time. People still travel to the area to pay tribute.
That's actually pretty cool!! My hometown did similar things for a famous musician from our town who died way too young too. Buddy Holly.
I went to college in Aberdeen. There's alot there to see, a statue of him at a muffler shop,the walk of fame downtown. Etc
and now half the people in seattle are walking zombies
Other end of the state dude.southwest of seattle
When Kurt died, and everyone realized that the first three songs on "Nevermind" all mention guns at some point...well, we all felt like we'd missed something that had been staring us in the face for years.
@Anthony Cunningham Oh well, whatever. nevermind
@Anthony Cunningham Yessss!!!
@Anthony Cunningham I think probably so. Climbing bitch, latched onto him as someone with talent, and wanted to yank every dime out of the commercialization of Nirvana.
When someone dies like that, it's only natural to look back a see if there were clues. With musicians , one natural looks to their lyrics.
Same as when Chester died, everyone went back and examined Linkin Park's lyrics.
@Anthony Cunningham Except that's not what happened. It's what a lot of people wish had happened because they can't accept that Kurt committed suicide, and coming up with a conspiracy theory to explain it was easier than coming to terms with the fact that someone they loved decided death was preferable to their adoration. That's a really tough pill to swallow, and I say that as someone who has had to deal with the aftermath of a loved one's suicide.
This song makes me, and probably every other Nirvana fan so sad. Kurt was truly a tortured soul who is still missed so much.
He was such an original and consummate artist; often imitated, but never will be duplicated,
True. I'm old. I loved him as much as my kids did, do.
@@barbarastrayhorn4667
How old?
I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan when they first came to America. I have enjoyed a massive amount of great talent. AM radio was a blessing. Hours and hours of nothing but pure joy.
@@barbarastrayhorn4667
Wow, so you’re definitely an older school Nirvana fan!
I was 9 when “Nevermind” was released, and I tend to meet Nirvana fans born after 1994.
I find the lyrics to "You know you're right", the last song he worked on before he died, to be hard to take. Also his song "I hate myself and want to die" from the Beavis and butthead soundtrack is another example of "holy shit" in retrospect
Sorry but the last song he did was Do Re Mi not YKYR
YKYR is about leaving Courtney
...but Only in retrospect, as he himself has stated that the title held No deeper meaning than the fact he found the Public Medias paintings of him as the "miserable-all-the-time" depressed guy, when in reality he was quite alright with life at the time, As Well as the fact that the lyrics of the song make no connection to the tittle, so yeah - nothing too significant about that title, other than the mere coincidence of what was about to follow...
Shocked that you're just getting to this one , monster classic
Better late than never ✌️🙃
For me, the song was basically saying "I know who you really are from our past, so just be yourself and I'll be your friend", with the "gun" being a metaphor for ulterior motives. Never struck me as being related to Cobain's death.
This is extremely 90s and brings back so many memories, it feels like yesterday.
That is EXACTLY how it felt in April of '94: retroactively eerie. Shock jocks and hack comedians thought they were pretty clever pointing that lyric out after the fact, but every fan or even casual listener had already recalled it.
In 1991, Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" punched everyone in the mouth! The whole world was introduced to these guys, and even though it was short lived, the impact of the music and what it stands for will live forever. R.I.P. Kurt, you are missed.
My granddaughter calls the CD the “the naked baby swimming”.
'Heart Shaped Box' is their finest moment to these ears! Please make it your next Nirvana listen.
Jamel, Kurt quoted one of Neil Young's songs in his suicide note. "It's better to burn out, than to fade away" from the song "My, My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue).
I vividly remember hearing this song coming through my speakers like an alien. It cut through reality and the cultural sea changed immediately. I’ve never been so profoundly moved that way by music ever since, it changed everything and suddenly there was a light guiding me through the charades of society.
"All Apologies" is something you should react to.
Especially the Unplugged version!
The whole unplugged session is epic 🔥
One of their best
Hey Jamel. To answer your questions; The album 'Nevermind' by Nirvana was recorded at different times in 1990 and 1991. It was released in September 1991. Kurt Cobain died on April 5, 1994. And yes, listening to this song after Kurt's suicide had a *very* different feel than it did before he died. It's still eerie. Your words, "I enjoyed this, but I didn't at the same time" sums up how so many of us fans felt, and still feel, about this song.
Honey was not a suicide see UA-cam channel Slon Bella
30 years ago this year !!
It's bothersome when he says "I swear I don't have a gun" it just hits you...
I knew he had 1, cos of the sarcasm in his voice when he sings it
Considering he was murdered and all.
I remember hearing of his passing. I was a huge fan. I still am. I can tell you exactly where I was when I found out.
This was the first song I heard after that.
It still hurts.
I love this song but it still makes me cry when I think about that.
That afternoon I overheard some people in a dorm room discussing it, saying "he was like our generation's Jim Morrison" and I thought that was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard.. until I found out myself an hour later. Then I realized oh yeah, that's more or less so.
@@brovold72 As a big fan of Jim as well...
Yeah. I agree.
Absolutely loved this song when it came out, that spidery guitar almost feels like a nod to The Cure's "One Hundred Years". I will say though, this song definitely felt like a gut punch after he passed. I still love this song, but it always makes me incredibly sad and at the same time it's so damn good! 💔
I never realized it but your right about that guitar sounding like The Cure.
Also nods to Killing Joke’s song “Eighties” in the guitar
Supposedly he got that thick guitar sound by using piano wire instead of guitar wire. Truly a remarkable song from a bona fide musical maestro. Kurt had demons and struggles his entire life. It is so sad that he lost that battle. So many of the best singers of the 90s are no longer with us such as Kurt, Layne Staley, Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, and Scott Weiland, just to name a few. RIP to such talented performers. Thanks for reacting to this! ~Be Blessed
The music identity of my generation is all but wiped out. So sad to think a lot of those groups we’ve got zero chance of ever seeing in concert one last time.
That thick guitar sound is Krist Novoselic’s bass
@@kennithwehling6275 It's both
No. He used Dean Markley .10 strings. That watery sound comes from both the bass and guitar tracks running through a Yamaha SPX90 on the " Symphonic" preset when mastered. That added some more chorus to the guitars, as Kurt also used an EHX Small Clone on this track.
Honestly, "You Know You're Right" still feels eerie to listen to since it was released posthumously.
This was released in 91 and he died in 94. It wasn't posthumous.
@@djlp2212 I'm not talking about "Come As You Are" their song "You Know You're Right" was released long after Cobain's death and was one of the last tracks the band ever recorded.
@@weeman2470 Sorry, I misread your comment.
@@djlp2212 it's all good
"Come as You Are" was recorded in May 1991(released, March 1992).... Kurt "died" in April 1994. This song is just another in a long list of his songs and other writings chronicling Kurt's thoughts and descent into the abyss. Just my opinion.... But....."come doused in mud, soaked in bleach as I want you to be. As a Trend, as a friend as a Memoria (a "crafted" delivery of speech and prose)" seems like a lyrical testament to how he felt about the "world" HE was living in. Again, just MY thoughts, for whatever it's worth. Peace and Light to all....
"You Know You're Right" always makes me bottom lip quiver. The video is a great beutiful collage of Kurt.
drain you by Nirvana is a great song.
One of the best they did. What a guitar solo
The tragedy of the end of Kurt’s life was a few years later. When I first heard this song, I never thought anything of the lyrics being prophetic. I was lucky enough to see them in concert the New Years Eve just a few months before his passing. After that, YES, this song was full of foreshadowing. It’s still one of my favorite songs but it makes me a little sad too.
I love their music, but I can’t help but tear up whenever I hear it. It’s just so heartbreaking. 😢
In a world that has young people trying to be someone who they are not, it can be a powerful song...
I was 12 when I first heard it, my parents got divorced, then a few months later he took his life away... It was a hard time for me, but Kurt changed my life forever, I started playing guitar, and more than 25 years later I'm still here, listening to his songs, and realizing how genius it was :-) thanks man, all the best!
Sorry to hear that, but awesome you took strength away from it all 🙂
The whole grunge scene was full of depressed thoughts and imagery. With Nirvana especially, you can't escape it. But some of their music is still light and fun! I suggest an old deep track "Sliver" short and almost still innocent
Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged Album.... great collection of their songs and cover songs done acoustically live in front of a small crowd. My favorite because of the raw emotion in his voice is Where Did You Sleep Last Night. The MTV original broadcast was in Dec of 93.....just before Kurt’s tragic passing in April 94. Thanks for the channel...brings back memories on why I love music and love seeing your reaction to these great songs.
He got the riff from a band called "Killing Joke" and their song "Eighties"
There's a blues song from the 1930's that uses this riff as well but I can't remember what its called
Life Goes On by The Damned is another song this riff is very similar to
You might also check out "LIfe Goes On" from The Damned (1982) ua-cam.com/video/M0tA4MvnlOY/v-deo.html, which pre-dated the Killing Joke song (1984).
@Jeffrey P. It’s goes way back more than that: ua-cam.com/video/OPJoWH4dPzA/v-deo.html
And Killing Joke got the riff from Life Goes On by The Damned. Either way, it's all good music
The intro to this song is sublime. My favourite Nirvana song.
Kurt made me the music fan that I am.His love of obscure bands turned this little kid in the 90's into a music freak
You have to listen to their MTV Unplugged performance! You can pick any song and it is amazing, but the last song "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" is one of my all time favorites of any music by anyone ever. The ending and the look in Kurt's eyes is so powerful. I still remember the moment I heard on the radio that he had died, I was in the 8th grade and at that age when music has become a huge part of your world, so it was crushing. I remember MTV playing "All Apologies" a lot right after it happened. I'm grateful for the time he was here with us and the music he gave us and I consider myself very lucky to have grown up at the time that I did, becoming a teenager just as grunge and alternative were becoming big and graduating right before Britney Spears came along and the boy bands became the big thing. There'll never be another Nirvana. R.I.P. Kurt
I am not a big fan, but Come as you are, specially the acoustic version and Heart shaped box are so amazing songs
"Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach
As I want you to be"
I live 5 miles from his home were he was a kid .Coming In to Aberdeen Washington there Is a sign that says WELCOME TO ABERDEEN COME AS YOU ARE people from all over the country and the world come to take pictures by the sign. My 2 sons loved his music and so many more local people mourned his death suicide hurts so many !
This song is really about how Kurt felt about people and/or friend's in general.
Kurt Cobain was quoted once saying, "a friend is nothing but a known enemy."
Also, I think in saying he doesn't have a gun is his way of saying... Come like you and I know you are and it'll be peaceful as far as he's concerned. "No, I don't have a gun." 🤷🏼
Hope that made some kind of sense. 😆
I read that this song is about shooting heroin. Thr gun is a metaphor for the syringe. Soaked in bleach is how they would sterilize the needles.
@@benleetch6593 I've never heard that version. But basically, only Kurt knows what it really means.
I'll have to search some song facts and see what, their breakdown is.
I'm sure there's info out there, just never looked into it that much.🤷🏼
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@@benleetch6593 that is completely fabricated. you wouldn’t soak needles in bleach. It would leave them dangerous and unusable. some idiot just decided “I bet that songs about heroin!”
I’ve never heard of him quoted outside of this song as saying that.
Agree with this partly. The drug underworld can be seedy and violent. I think he is saying I don’t have a gun, come as you are, not packin. Reminds me of when Uncle Jun told Tony the opposite in telling him if he comes to see him, he better come heavy.
Passed through Aberdeen last summer going to the beach and the 'Entering Aberdeen' sign (now) says, "Welcome To Aberdeen - Come As You Are". I smiled and thought, that's a nice 'city slogan'.
I first heard this song was I was 11 or 12. I'd never heard of Nirvana before that. My friend gave me the single CD and I played it on my mom's CD player. Before that, I only really knew my mom's music (The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Michael Jackson, The Eagles, etc). It blew me away because I had just never heard anything like it and it was my introduction to ALL of the rock I'd fall in love with later. Every time I hear it I still hear the same "other" quality that it had then.
As an 80s rock fan, I ignored this whole genre. But this rise of grunge sent the 80s bands back to playing small bars, and they would do meet n greets with fans for free after the shows. So in a way, I'm grateful for it. 🤣 Oh, BTW Eddie Money's old FB page shared one of your video reactions yesterday =)
For me this is their greatest track. The feeling of alienation is absolute & the withdrawal into yourself. The watery guitar, water everywhere, dissolving the self back into where it all began, where it all went wrong. Always makes me think of Tarkovsky's similar fixation with water, always a theme in his films.
Another good one is "My girl ,where did you sleep last night"
I think he did that one. The acoustic version on Mtv
I seen Nirvana here in Portland Oregon, September 10th 1992, with Kurt (R.I.P.) still alive 🙏 it truly was an Amazing Show.
I, too, recommend Nirvana's "Lithium" like several others. Here's a link to a live performance: ua-cam.com/video/Z05qiPnLpMM/v-deo.html
Nevermind is such a timeless album and I really get how Nirvana and their albums created a new aesthetics and inspirations to artist. They always be my favorite band to listen to
You should check out "Blow Up the Outside World" by Soundgarden. Another song that might give you goosebumps knowing that Chris Cornell committed suicide as well.
There are "conspiracy theories" about Chris Cornell, that he didn't commit suicide but was instead "silenced" for the documentary he and Chester Bennington were working on about sex trafficking children.
Chris and Chester were very close friends, Chester died/was killed on Chris Connell's birthday (allegedly).
There's a lot of information out there about what may have happened. I'll leave a link here to a short video talking about the documentary and what may have happened to Chris and Chester as well as a few other high profile people who "committed suicide" totaldisclosure.net/louder-than-love/chris-cornell/
I'd prefer to find out these are just rumors but the amount of info starting to come out about this stuff causes me to lean towards the conspiracy theories, as much as I hope it's not true.
RIding around in a friends car in Colorado Springs in1992, everyone in the car singing along and knowing it was something special. RIP Kurt and Thank You.
There was a lot of career after this song. This was from Nevermind, their breakout album, and it represents the beginning of Cobain's superstardom, certainly not an imminent indication of suicide. But it does fit in with everything else and makes it obvious in hindsight that Kurt was inherently at risk.
Nirvana did an amazing cover of "the man who sold the world " by bowie
Also all the Meat Puppet songs on the Unplugged, Plateau, Lake of fire, Oh me. All amazing
Try a band like you've never done. MORPHINE: "Honey white."
Oh yes. Buena, You look like rain, You speak my language.
YES THIS BAND. Early to bed, Thursday or you look like rain by them.
Isn't that some old Seattle stuff right. I think I saw them at the ok hotel.
@@buzzaldrin6985 from Boston.
Morphine!!! Buena, All Wrong, Thursday are my faves. There is NO BAND that sounds like these guys. But they sound sooo good. Drum kit, slide bass, baritone sax and voice. That's it Jamel, but they make such good noise.
I 💚 Nirvana! So glad that I got to see these guys live. My nephew gets 'mad' at me because I got to see bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, etc. He was born around this time. I told him that I would have gladly taken him to see them. I did take him to see his 1st concert which was Pearl Jam. Good review 👍
Some other Nirvana songs you need to do a reaction to. All Apologies (this was the last track on the band's final album), Rape Me, Sliver, Something In The Way (very sad song), You Know Your Right, and On A Plane (very funny lyrics)
The single and video for 'Come As You Are' was released on March 2, 1992. Kurt's life came to an end on April 5, 1994. I believe the song was written in early 1991, but could've been written in late 1990 too. When I first heard the song, I was captured by the hypnotic sounds. After Kurt's passing, I believed like most that Kurt took his own life and the song took on a whole new meaning. Then evidence came forth and for the longest time I believed Kurt was murdered by his wife Courtney Love. Now I think there's a possible middle ground where someone aided in Kurt's suicide, though it might've not been intentional. But honestly, I don't think we'll ever know the real truth. I was 11 at the time of Kurt's death and it had an overwhelmingly profound affect on me because Nirvana was my favorite band at the time.
the facts are that there were no fingerprints found anywhere on the gun. you're right, he could have been helped. he had enough smack in him to do the job 4 times over.
Jamel, The song you were thinking of that Weird Al did a parody of was Smells Like Teen Spirit
Jamel...your reaction to some of these songs is priceless truth. I truly appreciate that you always "come as you are" to these songs. Yep, sometimes you overthink the meanings, but when you nail it you nail it HARD!! Peace, my brother. Stay safe and healthy. Peace out.
Jamel. Please do us a favor and listen to Sublime. Any of them man. The lyrics are beautiful. Set the new UA-camr reacts trend with Sublime!!!! Youre the best youtuber anyway. You actually get music. Other people are just reacting to the video. You listen to the music. Give sublime a shot brother
Sturgil Simpson - In Bloom is a beautiful cover of nirvana .. a country cover
Prince - when doves cry. Please
Nirvana sounds just as fresh today as when it came out. But the song after the fact made me feel eerie! They now have a sign in Kurt's hometown saying Come as U are..
I think he is singing about having a gun as in a {needle} . Just my take on it
~* From Seattle... still miss him...was a sadddd dayyy*~
You need to do pennyroyal tea from MTV's unplugged or hairspray goddess by nirvana
It was released a bit under 3 years before he passed. Nirvana was the soundtrack of my life in high school. He passed just before I graduated. It was really hard. His music really spoke to us loners.
Not related to Nirvana, but could you check out Joy Division - Atmosphere?
pulling Jamel into some punk. :)
@@redsmoker37 Post punk
@@redsmoker37 Well Atmosphere is one of the more epic and dark but beautiful songs in Joy Division's discography, So I feel that it wouldn't be too off putting.
I think Love will tear us apart will be easier for the first contact.
There's some relation tho...
One of my all time favorite songs from any artist in any genre. The opening is sublime.
Note I bought this when it was released in 1991. My feelings about the song after Cobain's death by suicide haven't changed. His brilliance and the tragedy are both separate and intertwined. All we can do at this end of history is enjoy the work.
Try 'Queens of the Stone Age'
- The Sky is Fallin'
- God is in the Radio
- Little Sister
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Little Sister!!!
The album came out in 90 or 91 and he died in 94. I was listening to Nirvana when they hit it big with Smell Like Teen Spirit. The MTV unplugged they did was a masterpiece for an acoustic album. Back then I my brother had a lot of cassette tapes, all I wanted to do was plug in a set of headphones. The bands that were blowing me away at the time was Faith No More, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Ugly Kid Joe, Metallica, Megadeth, and Pearl Jam. Couple you songs for a reaction are both cover songs done by Faith No More, easy and reunited.
RIP Kurt Cobain
Loss of a simpleton genius best way I can describe it. But just recently I found something on the Internet that showed me a song that Kurt Cobain , which was not of their doing, meaning, it was a cover song.
Lately I've been finding out a lot of bands have been doing this for a long time and it really surprised me. Decades of amazement wasn't even real. Based on lies. What a world we live in, what planet exists only justifies its existence.
@@paimannamazi1128 WTF dude?
@@jkalewine there was a song that Nirvana did that wasn't theirs, it was a cover song. What I meant is that a lot of bands that have hit sogs that they don't give credit to the rightful owners, meaning it wasn't written by them. I forget the name of the song but I'll look it up.
I was an early Nirvana fan and always thought this song was eerie! Years later this song still haunts me.
OH YEAH AGAIN! Forgot to reiterate my request: Modest Mouse "Teeth Like Godshoeshine" and "Dramamine"
My all time favorite band! I was only 5 when Kurt died, but I discovered them later as a teenager. Nevermind was one of those albums that my dad, my sister and I all had our own copies of. A true masterpiece.
This song, unfortunately, fuels a lot of conspiracy theorists, who ignore all his other songs about his depression.
Plus his attempted drug overdose suicide in 1994 which was six weeks before his actual suicide while on their 1994 European tour.
But...what if it's not a theory?
I've never heard this song linked to his suicide before now, and never thought about it myself. This was released about three years before he died. It's a song about accepting people for whom they are. A lot of songs mention guns, and this one is so far from depression and suicide, it has pretty much nothing to do with his death. He wrote other lyrics that can much more easily be linked to it.
@@chitlitlahTo clarify, I didn't say this song is linked to his depression. I said that a lot of conspiracy theorists try to use this song as proof that he didn't kill himself because of the "I don't have a gun" line while ignoring all of Kurt's other songs that are about his depression.
@@artiezonk Dude, what are you talking about? Everyone who knows about Kurt knows he was very fond of guns. He had multiple. He grew up with them and enjoyed shooting. The lyrics "I don't have a gun" are not literal. It amazes me how abstract Kurt's lyrics are yet people want to find anything he says and interpret them as literal as possible.
Need to go listen to more Nirvana, now! I used to think how weird it was going to be when we reached our 80s and still banging to this! Great memories and this music never gets old
I imagine all the future old folks homes we'll be in, all us crusty old gen x-ers fighting over whether we're playing screaming metal or happy hardcore 🤣
He was murdered by the person up there doing drugs with him.
Courtney Love ?
@@diakojim1977 Dylan Carlson from NW band EARTH didn't kill him. They were tight drug bros. Courtney hired a man from California named Allen Wrench for 50 grand, because Kurt was going to divorce her ass. And then El Duce from The Mentors accidently, drunkenly mentioned it on that Kurt and Courtney Documentary, and was mysteriously hit by a train soon after. And Allen Wrench was the last person anyone had seen Duce with on the day El Duce died. Allen Wrench did it, and Courtney hired him.
Chills and goosebumps are a good thing brother. When I get that I know I witnessed something real. It's when a piece of art makes you feel alive.
The name of our band is pronounced "Nir-vah-nah", not "Nir-van-na" - Dave haha
“Lounge Act” is the best track on that album.. so much conviction in his voice in that last verse!
This song was out in 1991 and he died in 1994 so a few years later. I know what you mean though about the gun parts in the song.
It feels like foreshadowing what was going to happen. I get the same feeling now when I listen to some Linkin Park songs too. You hear some lyrics and it just doesn’t sit right anymore.
Yeah, with Chester it is pretty hard to sing some of those straightforward painful lyrics like "Put me out of my fucking misery".
Kurts lyrics were so abstract, that I think people overlooked them at the time it came out, but there were definitely noticeable themes. "Nevermind" has a ton of songs referencing guns, and on "In Utero" he references life and death in most songs as well as the album art. Very eerie looking back on it all knowing what happened
Yes, I'm one of "them" people that still says Kurt didn't commit suicide.
Courtney....all I got to say about that.
Great song!! 👍🤘
Me too. Courtney.
Courtney was in California when it happened.
She didn’t pull the trigger but still could have planned it. Nice alibi
they had at least one person who was willing to testify she was shopping for a hitman. then he got murdered.
@@maine420grow El Duce wasn't murdered. He was hit by a train when walking home drunk.
The nostalgic feels are so strong when this plays!
Cobain died two years after this in April 1994. I was in high school and vividly recall hearing the news.
Omg yesss. Watching Kurt Loder deliver the news. Broke my heart.
Nirvana is my college years. Every time I hear their music there is a small part of me that is still rail thin, wearing baggy hip hugger jeans with a huge belt and cut off shirt and I’m falling deeply in love for the first time. Man, those were the days.
He didn't kill himself.
Tom Grant lied to you.
The world stopped turning the moment I heard Nirvana for the first time. Everything changed.
Jamel_aka_jamal, do yourself a favor, don't react to every single Nirvana song as an insight into his death. It's a waste of time and will just hinder your Nirvana experience. Kurt's lyrics are not all just insights into his death.
*In Bloom* is a must
nirvana had a song called i hate myself and want to die
It's extremely eerie that he states "I don't have a gun" which he meant figuratively in the song but in reality we know it ended up being literally that he did have a gun to end his life. Absolutely crazy how the events reflect back on parts of his lyrics a few years earlier.
Artists often have hidden truth in plain sight/lyrics. Morrison, Lennon, Joplin, all of them have lyrics that hit us after the fact
Jamal the Goosebumps were Kurt giving you a hug weren't you lucky today🤘✌️
I was in college in the PNW from 92-96. I heard a few Nirvana songs 🤣.
I miss the rkcndy :(
My all time favorite song from Nirvana